Ah, there's the Grey's I know and love

This week's Grey's Anatomy was a return to the typical drama of the past. However, one storyline bugged me alot. Revamped storylines don't really hold the "oh my god" quality that I, personally, have gotten used to.

The writer's have decided to revive the theme of Cristina's competetive nature with Grey. Only this time, the Grey is Lexie. Lexie and McDreamy are bonding over Meredith, which leads to McDreamy being extra nice to the baby Grey. Of course, this gets to Cristina because in Cristina's world, all praise is awarded by merit. And since she has done everything in her power to be the best at everything, in her head, the praise belongs to her. Turns out, McDreamy was only trying to get Cristina to lighten up on Lexie and actually teach her, instead of telling her to get the hell out of the way so she could perform the surgery herself and keep all the credit for being brilliant.

The Gizzie affair hangs over the entire show. Callie knows about Izzie and George, and decides to forgive George because "they took vows" yadda yadda yadda. But at the end of the episode, she takes it back. She doesn't really forgive him at all. Callie confronts Izzie and tells her to meet her in the cafeteria at noon. It's all very high school, which I'm sure the writers were going for, since they seem to have found their target audience once again. But has no one else noticed the fractured flow since last episode? One week ago, the show was about being old, now the show is about high school drama and chick fights? Where is the consistency?

Alex finds out that Izzie and George are sleeping together and we find out that his torch for Izzie never really went out. Or perhaps his ego is bruised because Izzie slept with George, but refused to sleep with Alex after the whole Denny thing. But at the same time, Ava is still a big thing for Alex, too. So who does Alex really love? This is the question.

Norman, the really old intern I mentioned last week, accidentally tells a patient that she's going to die, when in reality, she only came in to get moles removed. The patient checks out before Meredith catches the mistake and proceeds to quit her job, put up her apartment, dump her boyfriend and buy a ticket to Iceland so she can start really living the rest of her life. McSteamy is put in charge of settling with the patient to prevent her from suing. After a new, four bedroom house, the patient isn't so upset about the wrong prognosis.

The chief's neice returns to the hospital with a huge lump in her throat, which prevents her from breathing correctly. It's the result of a resurgence of ovarian cancer throughout her chest and lungs. The prognosis doesn't look good and she decides at the age of 18, that she no longer wants to fight her cancer. She wants to go home and die in peace, and spend the rest of her days with her friends and family. The chief's wife, makes this about the baby she lost and sees her neice as the child she never had. She puts the chief in charge of changing their neice's mind, which is not something he can really ethically do, since he's emotionally involved in the case. But Grey's Anatomy doesn't really concern itself with silly little things like ethics. Anyways, the chief lets his neice decide for herself what she wants to do after presenting her with all her options and he places himself firmly back in the doghouse with his wife.

But the highlight of the entire episode is:


ready for it...


McDreamy told Meredith he wanted to marry her!
Ok, so he didn't really ask her. Why would he? Meredith is commitment phobic. But he says he'll wait for her to be ready... with one stipulation. Should he meet someone who is ready before Meredith is, well, maybe he and Meredith won't be so happily ever after.

But, oh man! He wants to marry her. I'm still giddy.


My hopes are high for the rest of the series. I'll make a weak episode allowance every now and then, simply because love like this is strong enough to forgive mistakes. But I'm not sure I'll have to make very many of those allowances in the future.

Grey's is back.